As the league's leading scorer and likely it's most
polarizing figure, there isn't a more known commodity in the SEC.

But it'd be accurate to label the Ole Miss junior the Rebels
determining factor.

Just look at the numbers.

Henderson, who is averaging 19.5 points per game is
averaging 23 points in the Rebels' 10 conference wins while shooting
40.25 percent from the field. It's an impressive figure for a volume shooter who
often jacks up 3-point attempts from well beyond the NBA 3-point line.

But in their six league defeats his stats haven't been the the same.

The 6-foot-2, 180-pounder who led South Plains College (Texas)
to a perfect record and a JUCO national championship last season, is shooting a tad more better than 30 percent from the field, going a combined 29-for-96 while averaging 16 per.

Coming off an embarrassing loss to arch-rival Mississippi
State, which had lost 13 in a row, this past Saturday, Ole Miss coach said Andy Kennedy said his team will need Henderson to be on his game this week during Monday's coaches' teleconference. The Rebels, who sit in fourth place in the conference,
are set to play a pair of crucial games at Alabama Tuesday and at LSU Saturday
in their final two regular season matchups.

"When your leading scorer isn't scoring at that rate,
especially on the road, then you've got to have other guys step up," Kennedy
said.

Kennedy continued: "I've always thought this. Your best
players carry you on the road. Now, you role players can help you a little more
at home. But you need your best players, your all-league caliber guys, to
perform on the road. We've certainly struggled in that area."

Five of the Rebels six losses in conference play have come
away from Tad Smith Coliseum. Should they slip out fourth in the conference
standings, they would have to win four games in as many days at the SEC
tournament in Nashville next week.

But Henderson's numbers on the road are a bit more complex to
decipher. He's right around his average at 18.8 points per game but his
shooting percentage is still low at a shade over 30 percent. He's
getting his points. But, seemingly, he's having to work a lot harder for them. In
their last three road games, all losses, against Texas A&M, South Carolina
and Mississippi State, he's scored 10, 11 and 16 points and shot a combined
12-for-47. That's about 25 percent.

"I've examined it," Kennedy said. "Obviously, we watch a lot
of tape before, during after. We look at the quality of his looks. We look at the
time, score, space, where are we getting the shots and the shots that he's
missing are the same ones that he gets day in and day out. It's just a matter
of making the play that are there."

Nick Birdsong covers SEC men's basketball for al.com. He can
be reached at 205-325-2327 or nbirdsong@al.com.
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